Crime Statistics for The Camp, St Albans, Hertfordshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for The Camp in September 2024. There were a total of 264 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Anti Social Behaviour.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in The Camp, this category is usually the largest in any urban area. This is partly because 'Violent Crime' covers so many offences compared to say Burglary

Crime Category	Incidents
Violent Crime	65
Anti Social Behaviour	50
Shoplifting	40
Vehicle Crime	26
Other Theft	24
Burglary	16
Criminal Damage Arson	16
Public Order	10
Bicycle Theft	7
Other Crime	4
Drugs	3
Possession Of Weapons	1
Theft From The Person	1
Robbery	1
All Crime	264

Map of street level crime incidents in September 2024

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes The Camp. This map shows if incidents are evenly distributed over the district or if there are hot spots in certain streets or areas.

Where Police data is not specific to an address for privacy reasons, most roads are represented by 1 to 2 markers or clusters. However, this should be enough to ascertain if the road you live in or are thinking of moving to, is a crime hot spot. The only exception could be where there is a large cluster of a single crime category on a street, as this could but not necessarily be related to multiple incidents at one address.

Crime incidents in neighbouring areas to The Camp

We've taken the ten nearest places to The Camp and ranked them by the number of crime incidents in each. This should allow you to see if The Camp has more crime than other surrounding areas.

Location	Crime Incidents
Bernards Heath (1.39 miles)	626
St Albans (0.88 miles)	388
Marshalswick (1.24 miles)	343
The Camp	264
Townsend (1.75 miles)	226
St Julians (1.39 miles)	99
Broad Colney (1.96 miles)	97
Tyttenhanger (1.39 miles)	88
London Colney (1.39 miles)	86
Park Street (1.75 miles)	44

Where are the most violent places near The Camp?

The category of crime that most concerns people is violent crime. We have taken the ten nearest place to The Camp and ranked them according to the number of violent incidents in the 'best fit' Policing neighbourhood.

Location	Violent Incidents
Bernards Heath	384
St Albans	106
Marshalswick	104
Townsend	69
The Camp	65
Broad Colney	44
Tyttenhanger	25
London Colney	23
St Julians	22
Park Street	11

How likely are you to be a victim of crime in The Camp?

Every two years the government publishes the Index of Multiple Deprivation. One of those domains is crime, more precisely, how likely you are to be the victim of a what is known as 'personal crime', such as muggings or burglary. The governemnt publish these statitsics down to the Lower Super Output Area (LSOA) or in simple geographic terms, a few roads. These statistics are also published on a ward level as an average of the LSOAs in that area. We have taken the average rank and converted it into a more accessble form, a score out of 100. Where the higher the score, the more likely you are in The Camp to be a victim of personal crime. Note that the following score has been generated from the 2019 statistics. At the time of writing, these have not been updated by the government during and since the COVID 19 pandemic.

How does crime in The Camp compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to The Camp and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.The Camp is ranked #2.

#	Ward	Score
1	Sopwell	63
2	Cunningham	62
3	Batchwood	60
4	Colney Heath	58
5	London Colney	56
6	St Peters	55
7	Clarence	34
8	Verulam	32
9	Ashley	28
10	Marshalswick South	22
11	Marshalswick North	18

Which road in The Camp has the highest level of crime?

We have used the Index of Multiple Deprivation to find the Lower Super Output Area (LSOA) in The Camp with the highest crime score. Accoding to the 2019 statistics, that is in and around this marker.